Here’s what we suggest instead of/in addition to reading Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard and/or Lincoln’s Last Days by Bill O’Reilly & Dwight Jon Zimmerman. Listen to the podcast to hear us talk about some of these titles in more depth!
- Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
- Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James Swanson
- Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South by Stephanie McCurry
- Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
- The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner
- Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth & John Wilkes Booth by James Cross Giblin
- Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
- Lincoln’s Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinkin
- Love Letters by Debbie Macomber
- Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer by James Swanson
- Mr. Lincoln’s High-Tech War: How The North Used The Telegraph, Railroads, Surveillance Balloons, Iron-Clads, High-Powered Weapons, and More to Win the Civil War by Thomas Allen & Roger Macbride Allen
- Owen by Tony Riches
- Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David Blight
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
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(But no pressure, we’re also happy if you get these items from your local library or independent bookstore.)
